Karma and Planets 223exercise the influence on the subconscious level of the
man. They stimulate the deeper levels of karma that lie as
associations in the desire-body of man. Until the etheric,
astral and mental bodies are purified through a constant
practice of mental ease, the influence of progression will
not come to an end.
The stimulation of karma by progression is of three
levels : (a) the progression of planets forming an aspect
with other planets; (b) planets forming aspects with
houses; and (c) progressing houses forming aspects with
birth planets. The influence is more and more deep-seated
in the given order. The first set of aspects influences the
etheric body. The second set influences the astral body
and the third set, the mental body. When the impulses
caused by these three types of progressions are completely
neutralised, the personality comes to an end. Man begins,
for the first time in his life, to feel conscious of the existence
and the experience of his soul. Persons and incidents of
the environment cease to exist to him, even though he
discharges all his normal duties towards them. He
becomes gradually attached to a spiritual group and
begins to feel the presence of persons and the activity on
the group-level. From this time onwards his horoscope
responds to ‘anti-directions’. It should be progressed in
the reversed direction. His birth-Moon and Sun gradually
fade into insignificance in their effects of progression.
Only the progressed ascendant and the tenth house in
the opposite direction begin to influence him on the
group-level.